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Fear & Confidence. The Houston gossipists' spit-spat has been building ever since Roberts abruptly announced 20 months ago that after 23 years on the Press he was quitting to accept a better offer from the Post Press Editor George Carmack frantically placed long-distance calls for a replacement. When none appeared, he took a slow look around his own city room, finally tapped energetic Maxine, mother of two, who had worked for Roberts since 1956 and knew all of her old boss's news sources. "I was petrified." says Maxine. "I couldn't eat. I couldn...
...vacuum provided by his competitors, Press Editor George Carmack, 53, a 6-ft. 4-in. Tennessean who rose through the Scripps-Howard chain, moves with the enthusiasm of a newsman who would rather be forthright than first. Carmack's small staff cannot hope to outproduce the Post and the Chronicle, and the paper frequently relies on sheer sensationalism. But with an independence of spirit rare in a chain newspaper, rarer still in Houston, the third-ranking Houston Press has clearly demonstrated that last is not necessarily least...
...reassembled all the familiar and unfamiliar characters of the Bonanza and El Dorado days, missing no nugget of color and adventure. A squaw man named George Washington ("Siwash George") Carmack staked the first big claim on Aug. 17, 1896, a day still celebrated in Yukon territory. There it was, "lying thick between the flaky slabs of rock like cheese in a sandwich." Charley Anderson bought a claim when drunk for $800, tried to get his money back when sober and could not. Out of it came $1,000,000 and his lifelong nickname, the Lucky Swede. Soon the world outside...
...jammed with the tragic stories of tenderfeet who tried to reach the golden creeks by boat, over the dread mountain passes and even over a sure-death glacier route. Even those who found great wealth often lost it, to gamblers, business crooks, the girls, or over the bars. Carmack died respectably, leaving his second wife, a former brothel-keeper, a fortune. But Lucky Swede Anderson, divorced by his dance-hall girl, died pushing a wheelbarrow in a sawmill for $3.25 a day. Lucky always denied that he ever had a million: "The most I ever had was nine hundred thousand...
Primary results last week: ¶ In Tennessee, cob-nosed Kenneth D. McKellar, premier porkbarreler and 77-year-old dean of the U.S. Senate, won renomination over Edward W. Carmack Jr., endorsed by C.I.O. and the Nashville Tennessean. Neither McKellar nor renominated Governor Jim McCord needed the usual thumping 40,000 majority delivered by Boss E. H. Crump's Shelby County machine, but they got it anyhow. McKellar also swept bloody McMinn County...